"American Horror Story" ( 9 p.m. Oct. 5, FX; 2 stars ) reminds me of a car wreck: It's disturbing and macabre to stare as you drive past, but you just can't help yourself. The new FX drama is moody, weird and shocking, but creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk populate the series with one-dimensional characters, pat story lines cribbed from myriad haunted house and slasher movies, some awful dialogue and a lot of naked Dylan McDermott. McDermott's nudity is a good metaphor for the series: It's fun to look at, but there's not a lot of substance underneath.

A lot of tongues were wagging in "American Horror Story: Coven," Chapter 7, "The Dead. " Let's get started with THE tongue, the only one that matters - Spalding's. Zoe found it, fresh as a daisy despite being detached from his head 30 years ago, and reattached it with this episodes' very rare hocus-pocus. By now viewers are used to a lot of crazy in each episode, but this one seemed to have more talk than action, which was a bit disappointing. Anyway, back to Zoe, who is getting more daring as well as powerful.

"American Horror Story" creator Ryan Murphy has said the new season, called "Coven," is going to be lighter than past installments. You can't tell that from the main title sequence. Murphy posted a video of the opening Thursday morning on YouTube, and it is just caa-reepy as all those teasers we've been seeing. Check it out and tell me what you think. "American Horror Story: Coven" premieres at 9 p.m. CT Oct. 9 on FX. It stars Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Taissa Farmiga, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy, Denis O'Hare.

"American Horror Story: Coven" is getting more than Stevie Nicks music. The legendary rocker is set to guest star on the FX show, series creator Ryan Murphy tweeted Tuesday . "Guess who's visiting to the Coven? The legendary Stevie Nicks!" Murphy wrote. The "Glee" co-creator has said in the past that ha has been a Nicks fan for years; he paid tribute to her music with Fleetwood Mac in a 2011 "Glee" episode. Speculation about an appearance by the one-time Fleetwood Mac singer started when one of the show's characters, necromancing loner Misty Day (Lily Rabe)

"American Horror Story" returns in October with a tweak to the title. It will be called "American Horror Story: Asylum," FX and producer Ryan Murphy announced Wednesday. That's a fitting title since the series will be set in an insane asylum run by Jessica Lange's character, who will not be creepy Constance Langdon, the woman she played to perfection in the show's first season. The new season is set in 1964 and stars Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Zachary Quinto, James Cromwell and Joseph Fiennes.

I hope Jessica Lange never ends her collaboration with Ryan Murphy. "American Horror Story" just won't be the same without her. No matter what outlandish acts Murphy and his co-producer Brad Falchuk ask of the Oscar and Emmy winner, she turns them into small-screen magic. That's never been truer than in the scare-fest's latest season, "Coven" ( 9 p.m. CT Wednesday, Oct. 9, FX; 3.5 stars out of 4 ). Lange plays Fiona Goode, the all-powerful Supreme witch of an ages-old coven that fled the Salem Witch Trials for the relative peace of New...

A lot of tongues were wagging in "American Horror Story: Coven," Chapter 7, "The Dead. " Let's get started with THE tongue, the only one that matters - Spalding's. Zoe found it, fresh as a daisy despite being detached from his head 30 years ago, and reattached it with this episodes' very rare hocus-pocus. By now viewers are used to a lot of crazy in each episode, but this one seemed to have more talk than action, which was a bit disappointing. Anyway, back to Zoe, who is getting more daring as well as powerful.

I hope Jessica Lange never ends her collaboration with Ryan Murphy. "American Horror Story" just won't be the same without her. No matter what outlandish acts Murphy and his co-producer Brad Falchuk ask of the Oscar and Emmy winner, she turns them into small-screen magic. That's never been truer than in the scare-fest's latest season, "Coven" ( 9 p.m. CT Wednesday, Oct. 9, FX; 3.5 stars out of 4 ). Lange plays Fiona Goode, the all-powerful Supreme witch of an ages-old coven that fled the Salem Witch Trials for the relative peace of New Orleans.

"American Horror Story" creator Ryan Murphy has said the new season, called "Coven," is going to be lighter than past installments. You can't tell that from the main title sequence. Murphy posted a video of the opening Thursday morning on YouTube, and it is just caa-reepy as all those teasers we've been seeing. Check it out and tell me what you think. "American Horror Story: Coven" premieres at 9 p.m. CT Oct. 9 on FX. It stars Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Taissa Farmiga, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy, Denis...

Using the tag lines "This fall, the Coven's wrath will be hard to swallow" and "This fall, the kiss of death is coming," FX on Tuesday unleashed a new teaser and motion poster for "American Horror Story: Coven. " Talk about your deep throats. The new promos expand upon the show's official poster, which shows a snake slithering into and out of the mouths of three young witches. In the "Slither" teaser, a snake goes into a witch's mouth and at the very end, pops his head out again.

HBO has released the official trailer for its January drama "True Detective," starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. The trailer debuted Sunday during the season premiere of "Boardwalk Empire. " It introduces Rust Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Harrelson), two Louisiana State Police detectives who are asked in 2012 to revisit a homicide case they worked back in 1995. "Did you wonder, ever, if you're a bad man?" Hart asks. "The world needs bad men," Cohle responds.